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Sheriff's blotter: Even mother love doesn't always run smooth

Now that Mother’s Day is safely behind us, we can go back to admitting that sometimes our relationship with mom needs help from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.

On May 7 a call came in from a fellow on Eagle Creek Canyon Road who said “his mother will not give him his truck keys and wallet.”

When the deputy arrived, the mother told him her son “was not fit to drive.” But after considering the matter from a law enforcement perspective, “she advised that she would give the keys back.”

Would probably be better for most parents if word didn’t spread too far that a guy can call the sheriff on his mom if she takes away his car keys.

On May 8, the caller was a mother on Broadmoor Drive in Alto. According to one of the two deputies who responded, “she told me her son had a girl with him at the residence and she did not want the girl there.”

The other deputy found the young couple outside and told the boy that “he was not 18 years old and still living with his mother, so he had to do as his mother requests.”

The deputies then determined between them that the girl “was ready to go home,” so one of them took her there.

And also on May 8, a man asked for a deputy to help him convince his mother that those calls she was getting from an amiable Nigerian stranger who called himself “Luca” were not what they seemed. A deputy came out and stood by the phone while the woman called her new best friend. When she told him a sheriff’s deputy wanted to ask him some questions, the guy hung up.

The woman burst into tears. “She stated her son has been trying to tell her she was being scammed and after he hung up on her she now realizes something is wrong,” the deputy reported. “No further action taken.”

Except somebody probably could have used a hug.

Other kinds of relationships also called recently for uniformed intervention.

Some involved romantic disappointments. The clerk of an Alto convenience store called for help on May 6 when a love triangle blew up in the store parking lot. The deputy arrived to find a woman in tears in her car, and the other two parties gone.

“She told me she had just caught her boyfriend cheating on her,” the deputy wrote. The store clerk said the woman had come into the store earlier shouting at a man and another woman. They took the fracas outside, but the deputy reported that the clerk “told me that the guy was talking to the girl in the car and they were yelling at each other so she decided to call the police.”

The woman told the deputy her ex-beloved was both homeless and unemployed, so maybe some day she’ll come to see her bad moments at the ice house as a happy ending.

On May 6 there was a better love story going on in Capitan. It still ended badly with a deputy present, but at least the beginning seems to have been quite satisfying.

“The reporting party advised they have a trailer behind their house that they have been working on,” the dispatcher wrote on the log. “This morning they checked it and the door was open. There are shoes by the bed, and someone is in the bed under the covers.”

Four shoes, actually, and two someones, one male and one female. A Capitan police officer also responded and asked the deputy to help out by driving the male to the Capitan PD headquarters. Note that when you tell a couple to “get a room,” consider adding that it shouldn’t belong to somebody else.

Neighbor disputes are a LCSO staple.

On May 2 in Ruidoso Downs, a deputy went out to Stetson Drive to check on a complaint about a husky dog running loose. A neighbor let the dog into his own yard and told the officer where it lived. The deputy went there and gave the owner a citation. He told him he could pick up his dog from his neighbor.

Later, the neighbor reported to the deputy that when the owner came for the husky, he said “he would put a bullet in the dog” before he lets the beast change masters. This may not be over.

And finally, employer-employee disagreements sometimes need a mediator with a badge.

“Reporting party states that his boss and him had an argument and he hit him with a shovel,” the dispatcher wrote after an April 28 call from Corona. “Reporting party states that the person who hit him is his uncle.”

That's one of the worst severance packages we ever heard of. But medical help was declined.